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INVADER ACE(se/no), JOHN BENDER(us/de), CAMERA(de)

Proud collaboration between DE PLAYER and WORM!

JOHN BENDER(us/de) John Bender is a pioneering minimal synth artist born in 1950, Nürnberg. He is the son of a violinist and US Army Lutheran chaplain. Because of this, Bender moved around a lot as a child, living briefly in Nürnberg, Boston, California, Japan, Fort Knox, and New York City before eventually settling in Cincinnati. He played drums in a group called Barbi And Cen with his neighbor Jack Gorski. After Jack moved to Glasgow, Bender bought a keyboard and started working on solo recordings. He mentions Velvet Underground, Can, Tony William, Drumbo, Samuel Beckett, Alfred Jarry, Pere Ubu, Soft Machine, and Robert Ashley as influences. John Bender's music was self-published via cassettes and through the Record Sluts label. After 1985 he disappeared from the music world.

INVADER ACE(se/no) Swedish/Norwegian duo that makes "tubatechnoradiopop"; a mouthful that explains how the duo use an actual tuba as part of their sound. Instead of using computers and/or synths to produce their electro dance music, Anton Toorell (guitar, vocals) and Peder Simonsen (tuba, drum machines) also built a custom rig of cheap DIY electronics and a wall of old radios used as amplifiers. Much like audio recyclers, Invader Ace create new contexts for their instruments to function in, challenging the perceptions of what electronic music should be. This duo has been described like a mix of Mr. Oizo and Nisennenmondai, or the imaginary demos of an imaginary teenage Daft Punk.

CAMERA(de) This Berlin band’s driving “apache beat” has been compared to Krautrock legends Neu! and La Düsseldorf. However, they add a number of unpredictable elements and attitudes into this sonic palette. The band cleverly use playful sounds such as synths that conjure up memories of Commodore 64 computer games, or cranky keyboard pads that sound like an old tape machine being fastforwarded. All these nuances and surprises can be heard on their latest LP, the energetic and complex “Phantom of Liberty”.https://www.facebook.com/wearecamera/